Captive city: An elephant reaches across from its enclosure to take something from the hand of a youngster. Zucca was commissioned to show a Paris that was happy under the Nazi yoke
Controversial: Andre Zucca’s series of photographs, such as these young women posing in unusual sunglasses, showed Parisians enjoying life under German rule
Positive light: Zucca’s photos show women dressed in the height of fashion and courting young lovers enjoying the French sunshine
Ingenious contraption: Two fashionably dressed young men stand by a tandem bicycle towing a carriage of sorts
Positive light: Zucca’s photos show women dressed in the height of fashion and courting young lovers enjoying the French sunshine
Taking in the sights: A German soldier looks on at lethargic-looking polar bears at the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes, Paris’s famous zoo
A sign advertises the Europe Against Bolshevism exhibition, held under the auspices of Nazi front organisation the anti-Bolshevik Action Committee in Paris in 1942
Summer fun: A part of the Seine is pontooned off into a swimming pool, which is filled with hundreds of Parisians grabbing a chance to cool off in the summer heat
The French capital was thriving following the Nazi invasion
Youngsters sail boats
Life goes on: Parisians go about their business, walking down into a subway.
Business as usual: The majority of Zucca’s images show Paris as a thriving, lively city filled with food, laughter and young families
A walk in the park: these pictures show a Paris that is in sharp contrast to the hardships commonly associated with Nazi rule
French woman in Paris
Basket case
Boys sit on a park wall:
Girls and boys play in what appear to be the early forerunners of rollerskates against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower on central Paris’s Champ de Mars
Homeless man in Paris, France
Giant Swastikas line the streets of the French capital. Paris fell to the Germans just weeks after the Nazis launched an invasion in 1940
A flower seller sits outside her shop on a bright, sunny day
An elderly woman walks along the street wearing the yellow star which Nazis forced Jews to wear.
Symbol of empire: A soldier and civilians mill around near Cleopatra’s Needle in the Place de la Concorde, one of three obelisks taken from Egypt and re-erected in Paris,
elderly men huddle around a chair as they play cards
Woman and man in Paris. Zucca’s photographs are historically important not only as an example of Nazi propaganda but also because they were shot in colour
Friendly force: Nazi soldiers are shown participating in Paris life and are seen shopping at the market
Friendly force: Nazi soldiers are shown participating in Paris life and are seen at horse race
Shielded from war: A young family, including a man of usual conscription age, sit in the sunshine eating cherries
Show of force: Stern-looking soldiers from the Wehrmacht march down Paris streets
Parisian commuters queue to board a bus on a chilly early morning under the Nazi yoke
French men push cartloads of meat in Paris
Fashionable clothes Paris women
The Nazis were shown as integrated into Paris life
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